Integration of artificial intelligence by the Central Board of Secondary Education in India: towards innovative teaching and learning practices

ABSTRACT

The rapid advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing education systems at all levels. Understanding the wide-ranging potential implications of AI, the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has produced an AI integration manual consisting of details, strategies and approaches to successfully integrate AI in teaching and learning processes in its affiliated schools. Using thematic analysis, this study attempts to explore the promises and potentialities of AI in K–12 education with reference to the initiatives taken by the CBSE in its school system. Results show that the CBSE has taken two-fold initiatives to integrate AI in its school curricula. The first is to introduce AI as an independent subject of study, and the second is to integrate AI as a parallel pedagogical approach to instruct other multidisciplinary school subjects and vice versa. Finally, the study makes some concluding remarks regarding innovative AI incorporation in K–12 education.

KEYWORDS:

• Artificial intelligence
• AI integration
• AI in school education
• teaching and learning
• CBSE

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Prof. G. R. Angadi, Department of Studies and Research in Education, School of Education, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, for his supervision and inspiration with support. The author would also like to thank Chitra Chakma, Department of Studies and Research in Education, School of Education, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, for her assistance with proof reading. The author is grateful to the reviewers and editor(s), whose comments, suggestions, and feedbacks helped to improve the original study.

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Bablu Karan

Bablu Karan is a research scholar (PhD) at the Department of Studies and Research in Education, School of Education, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He obtained a Master Degree in Education (MEd) at Visva-Bharati (A Central University and an Institute of National Importance), Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His research interests focus on educational policies, curriculum, language education and the use of technology to support education in a range of contexts.